Altho' in buildings, brick may be esteem'd a material much inferiour to stone; yet 'tis most certain, that ... were the workmen put under strict direction by law to apply it as they ought to do, houses would be of at least five times the duration they now are. ...
[London : s.n.,
1706?]
At head of sheet in early ink hand in National Library of Scotland copy: Reasons against setting brick houses upon timbers.
Text refers to London "with an inconceivable expence rais'd from its ashes but forty years ago [i.e. 1666]".
ESTC
Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of English broadsides,
Buildings, Brick